Archive for Music
A whole collection of rare footage of Tom Lehrer on YouTube, apparently with his permission. Thanks, BDan! As I noted...
I installed the Pandora app on my iPhone a month or so ago, and have been listening to it occasionally....
Alexander Courage died last month. For those who don't know, he was a composer and arranger for TV and movies,...
Back in 2003, I posted about attending a lovely Kallet/Epstein/Cicone concert, filled with their magnificent harmonies. Among other things, that...
I'm listening to music while entering stories into the SH database. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer's "Farewell to Bitterroot Valley"...
There are certain albums on the iTunes Store that contain one or two particular songs that everyone wants, plus a...
One of the things I like about some country songs is the way the choruses work. For example, there seems...
My reactions to John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concerts have been mixed; sometimes I've loved them, sometimes they haven't done...
Folksinger John McCutcheon will be performing several shows in the Greater Bay Area next week; people with folk-music-inclined kids in...
James Keelaghan's Somewhere Ahead just came up on the iTunes rotation. Simple, brief, and lovely. First verse: Somewhere ahead, when...
Made it to the Talisman concert this afternoon. Was a short concert (only an hour), but good. Lovely voices, lovely...
As I mentioned in passing a couple months ago, I first encountered Talisman A Cappella [link updated in 2015] when...